A young boy; about nineteen, with red hair and big
green eyes full of dreams, is about to have a talk with a director to get his
first film made, or so he dreams of. A few hours later he is walking home with
his script in his hands and a heavy heart in his chest. This boy, named Hugo
Sawyer, gets in his room and locks the door.
Young Hugo falls to the ground in front of his door
and breaks down. Hugo knows very well that his esteem was made of glass, it
broke so easily. But Hugo knows how clean the pieces, and in no more than a few moments
does he bring himself together and walk to his desk. Hugo is working on a side
project, a secret script about everything that happens in his life on his
journey to becoming a screenwriter so that one day when he is famous and has the
money for it, he will make a movie out of it. To show the world his struggles. He
types a new scene into the script,
Scene xx :
[first approach to a director : rejected]
...
The boy writes on for some time and goes to bed. Next
time, I’m going to do better, his last thought before drifting off to
sleep. He does do better next time, but it just wasn’t it. For about a year and
a half, Hugo ran around looking for someone to take an interest in his script. And
one time, around October, someone does take interest. Some months down the line
and Hugo’s script turned into his first movie. He wrote that in his secret
project too.
One success
followed by a few failures and then the next success. For a few years it went
like that, Hugo wrote all his experience in his script. But one day, after
having achieved moderate success, Hugo stopped writing his secret script.
Ten
years later…
Hugo Sawyer,
a name almost everyone in the Hollywood industry knows about, a screenwriter
with whom many actors aspire to work with, is now the richest screenwriter in the Hollywood industry. After his fair share of struggle, Hugo finally got the
chance to become what he dreamt of. But even today, Hugo does not remember that script, a window into his past.
One day, Hugo
finds that the file of his secret project script among his old scripts. All his
ideas of making that movie come to life rush back to him and he decides to make
that wish into a reality, at least a biographical reality.
But there
still is one problem, he stopped writing the script ten years ago, and his
memories of those times aren’t that vivid anymore. For months, Hugo tried to
finish the script, but couldn’t. it made him realize how important those
memories were, they were of where he started. It made him feel guilty that he
had forgotten his roots. But he still had a strong desire to make this movie,
so decided to improvise. He decided to use clips of some of his interviews over
the past ten years instead of an actor acting out the script. With this decision,
he also made another big move, he decided to cherish the original script and
made not a single change to it.
The movie
took about a year and a half to produce, the same amount of time it took him to
find a director for his first film.
About a
year after the movie was released, Hugo was invited to an interview, which
ended up being his most memorable one. The interviewer asked him to share his
opinion about his struggle, so he did.
“I got to experience something, something not everyone
gets a chance to or even chooses to. None of us have it easy, but what makes
our starting points different is that some of us start from scratch, while others have a foundation laid out for them, one laid by those who tried before
them which they work from.
As for the lot
of us who have no foundation to start from, some accept it the way it is, and
some question it and try to build something on it. As for those of us who try, we
get to experience that something, called life.”
Your guide,
13 Chapters
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